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July 4 - July 6, 2017
Without an end, there is no game. Without being conscious of death, you can’t be fully aware of the gift of life.
I told them that if I laid a two-by-four across the room, everybody there would walk across it and not fall, because our focus would be that we were going to
walk that two-by-four. But if I put that same two-by-four 10 stories high between two buildings only a few would make it, because the focus would be on falling. Focus is everything. The team that is more focused today is the team that will win this game.
The harder you are on yourself, the easier life is on you. Or, as they say in the Navy Seals, the more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war.
Whenever I’m afraid of something coming up, I will find a way to do something that’s even harder or scarier. Once I do the harder thing, the real thing becomes fun.
You can always stage a bigger battle than the one you have to face. Watch what it does to your motivation going into the real challenge.
His method was: do everything right on the spot—don’t put anything unnecessarily into your future. Do it now, so that the future is always wide open. Watching him in action was always an experience.
It’s hard to stay motivated when you’re confused. When you simplify your life, it gathers focus. The more you can focus your life, the more motivated it gets.
When I am happy, I see the happiness in others. When I am compassionate, I see the compassion in other people. When I am full of energy and hope, I see opportunities all around me. But when I am angry, I see other people as unnecessarily testy. When I am depressed, I notice that people’s eyes look sad. When I am weary, I see the world as boring and unattractive. Who I am is what I see!
From now on, make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons. Make a note of everything that inspires you. That’s your control panel. Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation.
It’s not what we do that makes us tired—it’s what we don’t do. The tasks we don’t complete cause the most fatigue.
Stop worrying about what you think of yourself and start building a track record that proves that you can motivate yourself to do whatever you want to do.
